What Fishing Rags Do You Read?

Western Outdoor News
Kayak Angler Magazine
Sport Fishing Magazine
Fish Sniffer
Internet sources
Any others?
Not at all?
With the loss of fish reports and outdoor columns in most of the newspapers, many anglers have told me they get all their outdoor news online.  The diminishing outdoor print press is a huge loss to recreational fishing and a bigger loss in our ability to educate and inform citizen anglers.

Prior to starting kayak fishing as a business in 1994, I had an epiphany when I realized that 5 years of reading Pacific Fisherman Magazine had brought a lifetime of fishing together for me.  Likewise, reading WON let me know we had many fishery issues that were starving to be addressed.

Thanks for your time.

Field and Stream. OG style.


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I don't get any actual mags... here is what I used to get and why I no longer

Sport Fishing - Got tired of being jealous of ppl living in Florida
Pacific Coast Sportfishing - Got tired of being jealous of ppl living in So Cal, Actually this would be the one I'd still get if I had the time to read one)
WON - Info seemed dated and it was hard to keep up with it weekly
Fishsniffer - Seemed to be more and more focused on freshwater. And the "articles" turned into Ad's....When there a story on Bass fishing and the author (Cal) says..."while traveling to lake X you can always be a winner at Jackson Rancheria" really. Way to crowbar in the ad Cal.
Kayak Angler - I read on line

For reports I think anything in actual print is totally outdated by the time its in my hands. And when it comes to product reviews. I much prefer to hear from actual users. I tend to think lots of magazine reviews are skewed by advertising revenue/connections.

What exactly is the great loss to recreational fisherman?

If anything, we're way more connected too each other and the networking is instant.  Now you can read an article and have real time interaction with the author to provide feedback, ask questions and voice an opinion.  In terms of politics....networking online is a better way to organize, mobilize, and stay on the forefront of the issues.  Print is slow, costly and for lack of a better word.....schilly (as previously noted, the overt advertising is annoying, its like reading the ramblings of a used car salesman).

i USED TO subscribe to WON & 'Sniffer, but after i wised up and found NCKA, those mags & papers read like a bunch of fish killers,,,they NEVER talked about preservation or Catch&Release.

I also see it as OLD NEWS and after reading it for a few years, the reports are all cookie cut.

I don't get any actual mags... here is what I used to get and why I no longer

Sport Fishing - Got tired of being jealous of ppl living in Florida
Pacific Coast Sportfishing - Got tired of being jealous of ppl living in So Cal, Actually this would be the one I'd still get if I had the time to read one)
WON - Info seemed dated and it was hard to keep up with it weekly
Fishsniffer - Seemed to be more and more focused on freshwater. And the "articles" turned into Ad's....When there a story on Bass fishing and the author (Cal) says..."while traveling to lake X you can always be a winner at Jackson Rancheria" really. Way to crowbar in the ad Cal.
Kayak Angler - I read on line

For reports I think anything in actual print is totally outdated by the time its in my hands. And when it comes to product reviews. I much prefer to hear from actual users. I tend to think lots of magazine reviews are skewed by advertising revenue/connections.

Exactly.

I still read WON, but I get a subscription as a gift. I like reading about the long range stuff & the baja stuff. And there's a chance I might recognize the some of the names in there. My buddy gets the SoCal version & it is fun to compare what is covered.

I do not use it as a basis for making fishing plans though , (sorry, the thought of doing so cracked me up) it is always way to optimistic and dated for that.
But, since I often use my wood stove for heat this time of year, I like that the paper arrives weekly as it makes for good kindling after a quick perusal.

Never have subscribed to or regularly read a printed fishing pub other than the old North Coast Fishing News which was pre-internet for me anyway.

I stick to NCKA and Humboldt Tuna Club with a little bit of USA Fishing mixed in.  Other than that it's NWS, because fishing just about equals weather, wind and waves to me.  Not that bad weather wind or waves hampers my fishing - just changes my focus for the trip.

I have subscriptions to:

Bass west USA
Bass angler
Bass Masters
Bassin
Kayak Angler

I never used any printed media for reports. All my mags are for casual reading material. I figure all the printed reports are just too dated to rely on. Ever since i joined NCKA i have a pile a magazines i haven't even opened up yet. I rely on fellow anglers for reports.

I've stopped reading print rags because most of them dont have much central coast info them. The little they have is late. They are one big ad.
WON , besides being 2 weeks ago news, are a bunch of plagerizing assholes. At some point they decided that paying staff to write articles was passe, and instead they would simply lift posts from Coastside to fill the space between their aditorials and ads.
Around a decade ago RP of the NSA started running Humboldt Squid trips outside Cordell. A week week or so later Tom started getting them out at the Pioneer Canyon. I thought they had to be all the way from HMB  to Bodega, so on a fac day my buddy and I went out to the 900' foot line behind the islands all by ourselves. Hooked up on the first drop and filled the boat with crab bait. I posted on coastside. About 2 weeks later I walk into OPS and Rafael asks me if I'm writing for WON and shows me the article. Lifted straight from CS, speulink miztaces and all. No pm, email or call to ask my permission. No offer of a free copy, advercap....nothing. Why should I buy dead trees to read my own posts? Hell I got a free subscription a few years later and threw it in the garbage. Im not gonna inflate their distribution numbers so they can rip off their advertisers.
Advice to advertisers: put your $ where they get seen like on CS, NCKA or WCH.
You didn't see "WON readers list" dumping $ and time into fighting the MLPA. No, it was the likes of CS and NCKA educating and fighting.

I still read WON, but I get a subscription as a gift.

Same here, + my dad is in it a few times a year because his buddy takes photos for them. Otherwise, I wouldn't even consider it.

american angler
fly fisherman
northwest fly fisher
fly fishing in salt water
fly tyer
fly tying and fishing journal
california fly fisher
for my coastal info it is all NCKA and text and PMs from well informed people

cameron

NCKA is pretty much it. I will thumb through some print if for whatever reason it's at my fingertips (think waiting room).
I think Dennis had a point as far as informing nonfishing citizens. I can't see a non fisher person going online to specifically read a fishing article, but if it's readily available at their fingertips (again, think waiting room) they may very well pick it up and read an article or two.